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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 41807	The Taliban are at it again... Dec 26^th, 2021 at 2:38pm Taliban government scrap Afghan election commission - Oh dear.
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Laugh till you cry Gold Member Offline Posts: 16619 In your happy place Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #1 - Dec 26^th, 2021 at 2:55pm Brian Ross wrote on Dec 26^th, 2021 at 2:38pm: Taliban government scrap Afghan election commission - Oh dear. Isn't this exactly what Donald Trump and the GOP are doing in the USA?
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 41807	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2022 at 8:01pm Taliban orders Afghan shop owners to saw off the heads of mannequins
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 104568 Melbourne Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2022 at 8:31pm Brian Ross wrote on Jan 6^th, 2022 at 8:01pm: Taliban orders Afghan shop owners to saw off the heads of mannequins Words fail me - what idiots.
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 84469 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #4 - Jan 12^th, 2022 at 10:23am Brian Ross wrote on Jan 6^th, 2022 at 8:01pm: Taliban orders Afghan shop owners to saw off the heads of mannequins A li'l ol' practice on the front porch never hurt nobody...
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 41807	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #5 - Mar 23^rd, 2022 at 7:53pm Girls sent home in tears as Taliban reneges on plans to allow female high school students in Afghanistan
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Ayn Marx Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2937 South of Australia Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #6 - Mar 23^rd, 2022 at 7:58pm Brian Ross wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2022 at 7:53pm: Girls sent home in tears as Taliban reneges on plans to allow female high school students in Afghanistan Meanwhile the dancing boys dance on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eMUwkKiFY
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 41807	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #7 - Mar 25^th, 2022 at 4:57pm Interesting - Many baffled by Taliban reneging on pledge to reopen higher school grades for Afghan girls
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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 41807	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #8 - May 7^th, 2022 at 9:44pm Oh dear - Taliban continues restrictions on Afghan women with decree mandating face coverings in public
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 24940 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #9 - May 9^th, 2022 at 10:05am Very anti-Taliban of Brian.
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Belgarion Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5423 Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #10 - May 9^th, 2022 at 11:29am Did anyone really think the Taliban would act any different? Having seen off the latest group of foreigners who thought they could change Afghanistan, it's back to business as usual.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 104568 Melbourne Gender:	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #11 - May 9^th, 2022 at 11:49am Belgarion wrote on May 9^th, 2022 at 11:29am: Did anyone really think the Taliban would act any different? Having seen off the latest group of foreigners who thought they could change Afghanistan, it's back to business as usual. They are too primitive to be helped.
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Re: The Taliban are at it again...
Reply #12 - May 9^th, 2022 at 12:13pm

Belgarion wrote on May 9^th, 2022 at 11:29am:

Did anyone really think the Taliban would act any different? Having seen off the latest group of foreigners who thought they could change Afghanistan, it's back to business as usual. Roll Eyes

The reality is that the Afghans were suffering such a Stockholm Syndrome with the Taliban that even 20 years of a foreign occupation force did nothing to change the psyche of people that were around during the Taliban's rule. The people of Afghanistan will have to want to change their culture for the better if they do not want to live under barbarism. I do not care if Afghanistan becomes a war zone with a civil war. The Taliban will have to go soon.

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Reply #13 - May 12^th, 2022 at 12:56pm

The rest of the world tends to make the mistake of thinking of Afghanistan as a country in the modern sense, when it is really an area of different tribes and clans with no loyalty to anyone other than themselves, who make and break alliances with each other as their self interest dictates.

Many of these groups did not like the Taliban, but they did not like the central government either. The saw the western intervention as just another in a long line of invaders who would eventually depart, leaving life to go on as before. No doubt when assessing the situation some village elder or clan chief gathered the young men around and said something like "You, you and you, join the Taliban, you lot join the Afghan National Army, you and you go to work for the westerners. You others stay here and tend the crops. We will see who comes out on top and adjust accordingly to our best advantage."

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Brian Ross Moderator Offline Representative of me Posts: 41807	Re: The Taliban are at it again... Reply #14 - May 20^th, 2022 at 1:42pm Oh dear - Female Afghan TV presenters ordered to cover face on air, as women's rights further diminish under Taliban rule
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